How To Succeed Without Trying and How To Fail By Trying Hard

Children born into poverty who work hard and achieve in school have a chance of making it to the upper income bracket.  Their chance of doing so is about the same as that of kids from high income families who did work hard and are considered to be low achievers.  The poor high achievers also have much better chance of remaining in the low income bracket than low achieving kids from wealthy families.  This article explains why that happens in the US and Canada.